2014-15
Annual School Performance Report Maywood Middle School
Maywood Middle School
14490 168th Avenue SE, Renton, WA 98059 (425) 837-6903 www.maywood.issaquah. wednet.edu Principal Jason Morse
Welcome Involved parents and community members enrich our school and make it a premier middle level learning institution. Thanks for making a difference!
Mission Maywood works in partnership with the community. We nurture lifelong learners, creative problemsolvers and responsible citizens.
Demographics Grades: 6-8
Teacher Experience Enrollment: 1,021 95.8%
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In March 2014, the U.S. Department of Education declined to renew the state of Washington’s conditional Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver for schools receiving Title I, Part A funds. This decision affects all schools in Washington State, which are now subject to the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Washington is the only state that has lost its waiver and must revert to NCLB standards and timelines of assessment. For schools and districts to be considered succeeding under NCLB, schools must meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards. For schools to meet AYP, 100 percent of all students, regardless of special needs or English language mastery, must meet proficiency standards. Maywood met AYP this year. For complete information about the Issaquah School District’s assessment data, highly qualified teachers, annual yearly progress, and state NAEP (of Educational Progress) results, please visit the state’s online district report card.
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For budget details and more go to www.issaquah.wednet.edu/district/ CommunityReport/ The Issaquah School District believes in seeking continual feedback from a broad and diverse range of constituents regarding their experiences with the District and their neighborhood school. See the Community Polling Study site at www. issaquah.wednet.edu/district/polling.aspx for more information and survey results.
Highlights Recent multi-million dollar remodel includes an updated or new: Library, Science Rooms, Cafeteria, Gym, Office space, Courtyard, Parking lot, Track, Turf Field and much more. On-going alignment of Core curriculum areas to the new Common Core State Standards. Informed self-select for advanced pathways in Math, Science, and Language Arts Plus. Inquiry based Science curriculum. New Social Studies curriculum. New Math curriculum. New French and Spanish curriculum. All District middle schools have adopted a new math curriculum, Connected Math Program (CMP). Algebra and geometry classes provide opportunities for students to receive two years of high-school credit while still in middle school. First-year Spanish and French are offered for high-school credit. Over 70% of staff has completed the Issaquah Technology Project (ITP) resulting in technologyrich classrooms with highly trained instructors. Seventy percent of Maywood Middle School students participate in co-curricular and athletic programs. Maywood was recognized as a 2010 King County Earth Hero School for their recycling program and has qualified as a Level 1 Green School.
Improving Student Achievement The Benchmark Enrichment Learning (BEL) program is designed to address the needs of students reading below grade level. Several math interventions are available to students including support classes, after school camps and labs, and mentor programs. Math Enrichment Learning (MEL) grades 6 – 8 is designed to address the needs of students who are not meeting grade level in math.
Special Programs ELL, LRC1 and LRC2 classes. Impact – Middle School aged after school care available on site.
Extra-Curricular and Co-Curricular Activities Extreme Strings Orchestra, Jazz Band, Chorus, Leadership, Honor Society, Yearbook, Drama, Competitive Math Club, Math Lab, Science Club, Builders Club, Rubiks Cube Club, award-winning Robotics Club, Green Team Club, Co-ed Cross Country, Girls’ Volleyball, Jamboree Volleyball, Coed Softball, Wrestling, Girls’ Basketball, Jamboree Girls’ Basketball, Boys’ Basketball, Jamboree Boys’ Basketball, Girls’ Soccer, Jamboree Girls’ Soccer and Co-ed Track.
What’s New A six classroom addition is expected to be completed during the summer of 2015. A four year remodeling project has been completed for our staff and students to enjoy. It includes: Four remodeled science rooms, new gym and auxiliary gym, expanded/remodeled library, revised/improved parking lot, six new classrooms including two high school equivalent science labs, new turf field, new rubberized track, new baseball field, new office space, new courtyard, and a new entry
Just So You Know... Maywood benefits from a very supportive PTSA and parent community. Trained volunteers “walkabout” campus to supervise and make connections with students. Parents are trained in special strategies to assist students in reading and to assess student writing and math. VOICE mentors work one-on-one with at-risk students. PTSA membership is over 85%.
Assessment
Grade Level Total ELA
Two tests given to elementary school students—The Smarter Balanced Assessment and the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP)—help indicate how well Issaquah students are learning.
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Smarter Balanced Assessment The Smarter Balanced Assessment is a system of valid, reliable, and fair next-generation assessments aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts/literacy (ELA/literacy) and mathematics for grades 3-8 and 11. The system—which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional use—will use computer adaptive testing technologies to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed. Smarter Balanced assessments will go beyond multiple-choice questions to include extended response and technology enhanced items, as well as performance tasks that allow students to demonstrate critical-thinking and problemsolving skills. Performance tasks challenge students to apply their knowledge and skills to respond to complex real-world problems. They can best be described as collections of questions and activities that are coherently connected to a single theme or scenario. These activities are meant to measure capacities such as depth of understanding,
writing and research skills, and complex analysis, which cannot be adequately assessed with traditional assessment questions. The performance tasks will be taken on a computer (but will not be computer adaptive) and will take one to two class periods to complete. Smarter Balanced capitalizes on the precision and efficiency of computer adaptive testing (CAT). This approach represents a significant improvement over traditional paper-and-pencil assessments used in many states today, providing more accurate scores for all students across the full range of the achievement continuum.
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MSP The MSP is an exam developed by and mandated by the state; it replaced the state’s original annual exam, the WASL, in spring 2010. Washington’s education reform efforts began in 1993 and involve annual state-specific tests for students in grades 3-8 in reading, writing, math, and science (MSP) and then again in grade 10 (High School Proficiency Exams in reading and writing and End of Course assessments in math and biology). MSP goes beyond multiple choice tests. The tests are much shorter than the WASL and include multiple-choice and short-answer questions. Four-point essay questions have been eliminated on science tests. This change allows students to show they are able to solve the problems, while not being scored on their writing ability on the science tests. Besides being a state test rather than a national assessment, MSP results are reported differently. Each student either “Meets Standard,” “Exceeds Standard,” or “Does Not Meet Standard” in each subject—reading, math, writing, science— and subjects tested vary among grade levels. MSP scores do not compare students to other students; instead they show the learning level of each student as compared to the state’s expectations for a well-taught student at that grade level. MSP results help parents know how well
each student is meeting learning targets, and the results help schools plan instruction and curriculum focused on these learning targets. Numbers represent percentage meeting or exceeding standard.
Grade 8 MSP-Science 84.1
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